Saturday, May 30, 2009

I Got Tagged in a Game of Blog Tag Too! What are the Chances?

Okay, speaking of chances, in other words, coincidences, I've been a fan of PinkPackrat for quite some time now. Pretty much since I started blogging last September. It didn't matter what she really wrote about, it was the way she wrote about it, and does, of course, that totally gets me enthralled. Needless to say, I'm hooked. I've been hooked.

Somehow or other I drifted, don't know how or what was going on. I think I did a feed instead of a follow because I was such a newbie and there's a million places where you can get your feed to store. Anyway, we were separated for about two months I think, maybe three I don't remember exactly. Then I shot her a glance again, one day just stumbled upon her somehow, and the next thing you know, I find out I know her! Well, not in person, but I know her writing on HubPages. Did the same to me there as she did to me here on blogspot. What a coincidence, huh? Out of the millions of people out there that blog and I happen to walk in on her Gin joint on today of all days... You get what I'm saying, of course.

So this wonderful blogger pal of mine, who incidentally got me onto Twitter all because of one of her blog posts, has decided to tag me. Why? Do you have to ask? Please. It's because I'm "delightful". Don't believe me, check out this post.

So what's this all about, this tag thing? Kinda like what we do on Facebook once in a while. The person who starts it is usually someone who wants to talk about themselves and then tags someone so they can read about the initial narcissist (I'm kidding here, I think. I don't really know who started this whole business. They could have been bullied into it for all I know.) At any rate, after that, it becomes a game. A way of getting to know people you know but don't really know. And it really is loads of fun. So here are the rules:

Mention the blogger who tagged you and link to his /her blog (check)

Post three lists of eight things about you that people don't know

Tag eight of your favorite bloggers and don't forget to tell them they've been tagged.

So, let's play Blog Tag, shall we? By the way, if I had actually clicked into the Blog Tag link, I wouldn't have gone on my rant about how it started, I think...

List #1: Things I've always wanted to do

Be a beekeeper and make my own honey and honey/wax products

Stay for a month in the French countryside living the quiet life

have my own writing studio that opens to a gorgeous garden

have a green thumb

Own a duck or two

publish a book

have my articles published in big magazines

have a syndicate column for a while

have a nice juicy mystery read to me and Dave by the one and only George Guidell, in person

fall asleep to George Guidell reading a juicy mystery to me and Dave.

List #2: Foods I love

Tyropita

Steak

Mashed potatoes

Brown Cows (the ice cream on a stick with the chocolate coating)

Ted Drews frozen concrete with pineapple or raspberry or reeces peanut butter cups or cling peaches or reeses pieces (they don't have this last topping, but I've had it somewhere similar and it's completely to die for.

Potato skins

gyros

salads

deviled eggs on soft white bread

spaghetti

dolmathes with a side of feta and calamata olives

toast with butter and drizzled honey

calamari on french bread with the sauce that comes with them and loads of lemon juice

7 comments:

Ahh Frieda-- you have a way of making everything soooooo much fun. I love the way you do blogtag--you really are delightful:-) I agree with you about the month in the French countryside but not about calamari or being a beekeeper and I am thrilled I have eight new blogs to check out-- cheers and thanks for playing the game.

pinkpackrat, thanks for tagging me! Sorry it took so long. Load of fun this was. Cool to get turned onto new bloggers, isn't it? You know Andrew T of course and maybe some others, but hopefully, you'll find some new gems like I did from your tag post.

Special thanks to those of you who have responded. Some of you I've e-mailed back. Just remember, your lists can be about absolutely anything. Go wild! Hope you all caught "midnight love song" dedicated to all my fans and favorite people.

And thanks. Glad you like the new look. And glad you weren't checking it out over the weekend. It was changing every five minutes. I had writers block. That's was happens when I have writers block. I start organizing.